Liquid-meter.



I of the current of liqui same length as the external diameter of the :hollow shaft the bearing and the hollow aXis A 'T 0 all whom-it may concern.'

RICHARD Lonen, OFIBRESLAU, GERMANY.

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Be it known that I, RICHARD LOHSE, engineer, a subject of the King of Prussia, re siding at 33 Brandenburgerstrasse', Breslau, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Meters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a liquid meter in y'-\t{h i c l 1 ,the measuring-'device .consists of a- 'soecafled VVoltmann wheel, that is to say, a

measuring-wheel located coaxially with the casing and provided with spirally or similarly running vanes, which do not contact with the walls of the casing. l

' The essential feature of the invention consists in a vdevice located at the place of entrance of the liquid current in such manner that the hollow shaft of the measuringwheelV does not offer any opposing surface to the entering current of liquid. In this manner the pressure of the shaft-pin in the bearing located at the place of lexit ofthe current of liquid is diminished and thus the rotation of the measuring-wheel rendered es sentially'easier. The means for attaining ,this purpose may be very varicusly`construct'ed. If the b'earin at the place of inlet has the form of a conical bullet, it is advantageous to select the diameter of the base of the bearing of the 'then supplementcach other so as to form a sure of the pin of the shaft.

projectile-shaped body. Y

li-,Two forms of the invention are illustrated iriitheaccompanying drawing.

Figure l shows a li uid meter with Woltmann wheel in longitulflin'al section and part elevation. Figs'. 2 and 3 are part sectional views of the device'for decreasing the presy .As Fig. 1 shows, the measuring-device consists of a wheel a which in itself iswell known and whose hollow shaft b is disposed coaxial'ly with the casing and provided withV spil ral or like vanes orblades which .do not contact with the walls ofthe casing c. v In this form of construction it is assumed that the bearing d located at the, place of entrance of the liquid `has the shape of a conic'al bullet or projectile, whereby thestream of liquid is uniformly and continuously conducted towards the middleof the vanes of the wheel Specicaton'of Ifietters Patent.

Application filed August 8. 1906. Serial No. 329.649.

` Patented Feb. `18, 1908,.

-. a, which rotates -in the zoneof average velocity.

In order toavoid that the hollow shaft of -the measuring-wheel presents an opposing surface to the current of liquid, the diameter of the base o f the bearing d is of the same.

length as the outside diameter of the hollow shaft b, so that the pressure of the shaft-pin in the bearing opposite to the bearing d is also diminished.

Upon the bearing at the place of exit of the current of'liquid there thus no longer acts a pressure consisting of the pressure of the stream of liquid against the vanes and of the pressure of the stream of liquidl against the end of the hollow shaft, but merely the first mentioned pressure.

In the form of construction shown in Fig. 2 the hollow shaft forms asimple hollow cylindrical bod y; while inthe form of construction Ashown in Fig. 8, the hollow shaft -is furnished witha truncated conical eX- tension f.

The device for diminishing the pressure of the-shafbpin in the Abearingat the place of' entrance of the current of liquid may naturally be of other shape than shown. The only essential condition is that .the hollow shaft itself offers no opposing surface to the inflowing current of water, such as increases the pressure of the shaft-pin in the bearing located opposite the bearing d.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of theUnited States is In a iluid meter', the combination of a' cylindrical casing, a conical forward bearing block provided with an axially extending conical recess in its base, a shaft of the same diameter as the base 4of said forward bearing block, a tapered portion extending from the forward end of said shaft into the conical recess 0f`said bearing block and formed with a taper corresponding to that of said recess, and a measuring wheel carried by said shaft,

'substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 21 day of July 1906, in th'e presence of ltwo subscribing witnesses.

` RICHARD 'LOHSE Witnesses:

EUGEN WEIMAR, OLEAN GUTTSMANN. 

